theo@cs.vu.nl (Theo Vermeer) (03/13/91)
My brother will buy an ATARI ST(E) with a DOS-emulator. Is there somebody who can tell me the differences between an original IBM pc and the DOS emulator? How does the ATARI keyboard work when it emulates DOS. I know it has no keys for pageup and pagedown. I'm very pleased if someone could give me his experiences about the ATARI and the DOS emulator. Theo -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Theo Vermeer Fac. Informatica VU A'dam Internet: theo@cs.vu.nl Boelelaan 1081 k. S408 Phone: +31 20 548 5392 1081 HV Amsterdam Holland
mir@opera.chorus.fr (Adam Mirowski) (03/13/91)
In article <9289@star.cs.vu.nl>, theo@cs.vu.nl (Theo Vermeer) writes:
%% My brother will buy an ATARI ST(E) with a DOS-emulator.
%% Is there somebody who can tell me the differences
%% between an original IBM pc and the DOS emulator?
%% How does the ATARI keyboard work when it emulates
%% DOS. I know it has no keys for pageup and pagedown.
%% I'm very pleased if someone could give me his
%% experiences about the ATARI and the DOS emulator.
Some years ago I have tried PC-Ditto. PC tools (4.x) worked and gave
me as System Information a speed of 15% compared to an IBM PC.
My experiences with emulating DOS on Atari stopped there.
Some other sources say that a single Enter in Word 3.0 took about
5-10 seconds to be taken into account. At least Word didn't crash
the machine...
BTW, I never owned one, although it was a popular machine on our
campus. The problem was that I never heard of an Token-Ring or
Ethernet adapter for that machine...
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